We are incredibly proud to announce that our Beechwood project won in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC GTA Chapter’s annual awards. We beat out some heavy competition from Toronto Atmospheric Fund and the Harbourfront Centre. Steven and Chris accepted the award and the homeowners, Andrew and Maria attended the gala as well. […]
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GH President Chris Phillips will be blogging daily about his experiences in New Orleans at the Greenbuild Conference. — Hello from New Orleans and GreenBuild 2014! Once again, this conference — produced by the United States Green Building Council and the largest green building convention in North America — is enormous, with almost 40 […]
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We had an amazing turn out for our Green Energy Doors Open Event at our Beechwood Deep Energy Retrofit last weekend. We had over 120 visitors with lots of familiar faces. Previous and current clients, as well as industry professionals and the curious general public came by. We actually had a line up before we […]
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UPDATE – Recent testing, again by BlueGreen Group, shows that this project further exceeds the Passive House standard for air sealing in new construction. After drywall, the home achieved 0.44 ACH, compared to 0.52 ACH pre-drywall and 0.6 ACH for new Passive House construction. Also, this project is now one of three finalists in the […]
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Greening Homes is incredibly proud to announce that our Beechwood Deep Energy Retrofit has been selected as one of three finalists in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC’s Toronto Chapter Innovation in LEED Awards. Toronto Atmospheric Fund and Harbourfront Centre were the other two finalists. This annual event recognizes best-in-class projects and programs […]
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* This project has been selected as one of three finalists in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC’s Toronto Chapter Innovation in LEED awards. Drop by the site for a tour on Saturday October 4th as part of Ontario Sustainable Energy Association’s Green Energy Doors Open Event. — We recently installed high performance windows at our Deep Energy Retrofit […]
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Building on our great relationship with the StopGap team, our GH crew volunteered their time to build ramps for neighbourhood businesses in the Annex. This was our biggest build yet, and all 48 ramps were constructed and primed in short order. We had five GH members out to cut, build and prime the ramps while […]
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On October 4th from 10am-4pm, you can join us for a tour of our deep energy retrofit project at 4 Beechwood Crescent as part of OSEA’s Green Energy Doors Open event. Locations that are part of the renewable energy and energy conservation movement all over the province will be open to visitors. This project has been […]
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